Japanese Food Spots in Kyoto Area

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Kyoto
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  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
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  Nagasaki
  
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  Oita
  
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  Kagoshima
  
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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Toyouke Chaya

4.0

81 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto-shi, Kamigyo-ku Imadegawa-ku Nishi Immigration Nishi-in Kamiyagawa-machi 822

A tofu restaurant located in the Kamiyagawa-cho neighborhood of Kamigyo Ward which only operates in the daytime. The restaurant is operated by a tofu shop which was founded in 1897. In addition to set specials and rice bowls made with fresh tofu, yuba (tofu skin), and namafu (wheat starch), the restaurant also serves a la carte options like boiled tofu and cubed tofu as well as desserts made with soy milk. The restaurant also offers a selection of beers and sakes, giving diners the chance to enjoy a drink with some boiled tofu in the middle of the day.

We had to wait in line for 40 minutes to get in, but the yudofu was delicious. It had such a beautiful soft texture and fresh flavor. The smallest tables were four-tops, so my travel companion and I...
Pontocho Fujita

4.5

43 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Pontochousanjou Downright Pontocho cho at the singing dance front

This Japanese restaurant is in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City. They offer elegant kaiseki cuisine with differing day and evening courses featuring seasonal ingredients meticulously selected by the head chef. Their private rooms are popular and let guests dine while viewing the Pontocho cityscape. It's a popular venue for celebrations and receptions too.

Fujita is a kaiseki restaurant, doing around 8 delicious dishes using seasonal ingredients. What made it even better were the staff who were very happy to explain the dishes, often reaching for a...
Takaragaike Yubasen

4.0

50 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Iwakuraminamimiyakechou 70-1

This restaurant offers a French style dining experience for the traditional Kyoto food of yuba and is located around a five-minute walk from subway Karasuma Line Kokusaikaikan Station. The warm wood of the interior gives off a relaxed atmosphere. The yuba (tofu skin) on offer is made at their in-house workshop with domestic soybeans, and is distinctive for its “melt in your mouth” tastiness. The French-style course featuring fresh drawn yuba and other seasonal ingredients is particularly popular. The drawn yuba has an especially simple yet tender taste, served warm with grated ginger and diluted soy sauce.

I had never been to a restaurant specializing in Yuba dishes before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was certainly not disappointed. The Yuba (dried tofu skin), prepared in various forms, was...
Yudofu Sagano

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagatenryujisusukinobabachou 45

This is a boiled tofu restaurant near the grounds of Tenryu-ji Temple in Arashiyama, Kyoto, around a five-minute walk from Randen Line’s Arashiyama Station. The pure Japanese sukiya-style architecture that stands in the quietness like a tea-ceremony arbor along with the wide Japanese garden is one of its attractive charms. There are casual counter seats for single diners, tatami room seats for families and groups, and even outdoor seats where one can enjoy the garden at proximity. The “Yudofu” on offer comes with 10 dishes including Kyoto traditional Saga boiled tofu, Kyoto vegetable tempura, gomadofu (crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu), and deep-fried tofu. The “melt in your mouth” healthy tofu flavor is extremely popular with more elderly diners too.
Kodaiji Temple Kyoto Cuisine Manjiro

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Higashiyama-ku Kodaiji temple Kitamon-dori Shimogawara east entrance Washio-machi 518

This is a Japanese-style restaurant located near Kyoto Kodai-ji Temple. It offers traditional Japanese course dishes called Kaiseki which change according to the season, and visitors can enjoy hamo dishes using special hamo (sea eel) from April to October. In the back there is a luscious garden and the cuisine can be enjoyed in a calm space. In the tatami room you can call for Maiko and Geiko (traditional entertainers) and enjoy a unique evening that can only be experienced in Kyoto. There is also a casual lunch menu available. Visitors can enjoy eating a mini-Kaiseki course in the tatami room seated on the floor.
Mishima Tei

4.0

243 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto shi Kyoto shi Chukyo-ku Teramachi dori Sanjo down

This veteran Japanese restaurant is located about five minutes on foot from the Keihan Railway Main Line's Sanjo Station in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City. They feature the highest grade of Japanese black beef which they mature themselves. You can dine on delicacies like sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, and mizudake hot-pot with seasonal vegetables. Founded in 1873, tourists pour in from home and abroad for an ambience of the time when Japan was opening to the world.

Ive been to several Sukiyaki restaurants in Kyoto and other parts of Japan and this shop definitely ranks first for me. Although other restaurants serve amazing Sukiyaki as well, something about...
Kyoto Arashiyama Randon

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagatenryujitsukurimichichou 20-1 Keihoku Electric Railroad Arashiyama Station Hanzaraku Smile Square 2F

Kyoto Arashiyama Randon is located on the second floor of Hannari Hokkori Square, which is inside Arashiyama Station on the Keifuku Line (Randen). This donburi (bowl of rice with chicken or other savory toppings) restaurant is a large retro modern space, with decor that blends Japanese and Western styles. It has 120 seats and gives diners a view of what is happening in the area in front of the station. Its specialties include Arashiyama-donburi, made with yuba (tofu skin) and oboro-tofu (tofu curd) in thick broth, and Sagano-donburi, which brings out the umami (savory flavor) of the ingredients. In addition, the restaurant serves seafood oyako-donburi, with generous portions of salmon and salmon roe, as well as maguro-zukushi donburi, loaded with tuna, among other items on a wide-ranging menu of seafood donburi made with fresh seafood sent directly from the Kyoto Central Wholesale Market. A full drink menu, including beer, is also available.
Shimogamo Saryo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Shimogamomiyakawachou 62

Next to World Heritage Site Shimogamo Shrine, this old restaurant was established in 1856 and has a long history and tradition. It is a popular place that retains the practice of unique Kyoto hospitality. Upon passing through the entrance curtain one can feel history through the elegant furnishings, and the beautiful garden skillfully maintained for over 100 years is an impressive sight. The food is based around Kyoto vegetables and other local produce. The lunch limited Lunch Mini Kaiseki (course meal) comes recommended, featuring eight dishes served in bowl and tray. With this one can taste traditional Japanese flavors at a reasonable price.
Ganko Sanjo Main Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Sanjyodo Kawaramachi Higashiro Nakajima cho 101

Ganko Sanjo Main Shop lets guests enjoy authentic kaiseki course dining and sushi in a quaint Japanese atmosphere. A variety of large and small tea rooms cater to a range of uses from family get-togethers to large banquets. Guests enjoy a variety of dishes that tantalize the senses, from a small lunchtime kaiseki course to full-fledged Japanese cuisine. There is a kid's menu too.
omo cafe

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Nishiki Koji Road Ueshiya Town Kamiya Umeya Cho 499

Featuring Japanese sweets and creative rice dishes, omo cafe is in a lovely renovated traditional Kyoto townhouse. Whether you get their classic rice dishes, their weekday-only original donburi rice bowls, or something else, you'll feel their commitment to excellence. In the evening you can enjoy drinks and individual items off the menu. Party plans are available, too. Their omo parfaits jam-packed with flavors like matcha pudding, shiro-an poundcake, tsubu-an bean paste, and shiratama rice flour dumplings come recommended.
Traditional Dining Saami

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto prefecture Kyoto shi Higashiyama kuyama park

This kaiseki course dining restaurant is located in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City. From this restaurant situated in the elevated grounds of Maruyama Park many of the Japanese Gardens in the Kyoto vicinity can be seen. You can indulge in the exquisite Kyoto cuisine, discriminatingly prepared using fresh ingredients, while enveloped in refined authentic Japanese ambience. Many patrons use the grand hall, floor seating for up to 200, for weddings or receptions.
Shirukou

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Shimogyou-ku Shijoukawaramachi The upper part of the upper part of the east

This miso soup specialty shop is in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City. Established 1932, they make amazing dashi broth from ingredients like bonito and kelp, giving it a deep and delectable flavor. Choose from white miso, red miso, mixed miso, and sumashijiru clear soups. Set meals with side dishes to accompany the miso soup such as seasonal vegetables and fish are popular, as is their rikyu bento box.
Imobo Hiranoya Honten

4.0

48 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto prefecture Kyoto city Higashiyama ku Maruyama park Chirene In front of the Minamige

Imobo Hiranoya Honten is a venerable Kyoto-style restaurant located near Maruyama Park and Chion-in Temple in a quiet, atmospheric building surrounded by shrines and temples. A long tatami room with a narrow street facade, as is typical of Kyoto, the restaurant has been serving kaiseki cuisine centered on imobo for 300 years. A traditional Kyoto dish, made by boiling taro with dried cod, it is simple but has a rich flavor, which brings customers back time and again for more. An Imobo Tray, with imobo and side dishes such as Gion tofu, is very popular and serves as an easy introduction to this dish.

A good choice to eat Kyoto traditional Imobou in an authentic Japanese Restaurant. I ate the summer limited edition set and I was not disappointed.
Kyoto Wakuden

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Shimogyo-ku Karasuma-dori Shiokoji Sagaru Higashi-shiokojicho JR Kyoto Isetan 11F

A restaurant connected to Kyoto Station. Come enjoy reasonably priced authentic Japanese cuisine in a gorgeous fancy restaurant. The restaurant enjoys high popularity due to its seasonal dishes and famous chef who loves to flex his originality. Two of their many different course meals cannot be reserved in advance during the lunch period so please confirm before visiting. The restaurant features an open kitchen and from the counter seating you can watch the skills of the chefs from up close.
Fujimoto Kyoto Cuisine

4.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Shinmachi Dori Oike Sagaru Shinmeicho 72

This Kyoto cuisine restaurant is about five minutes' walk from Karasuma Oike Station, or ten minutes' walk from Nijo castle, on Shinmachi-dori avenue. It once did business in the Ryoutonzushi district, but moved to its current location in 2018. The cozy little restaurant has counter seating and one table, and offers a wide variety of Kyoto cuisine. The lunch course menu has been known for high value since before it moved, with appetizers steeped in rich dashi broth, lightly flavored bowl dishes, perfectly seasoned grilled and fried dishes, and more. It is often full, so reservations are highly recommended.

１０月に訪問しました。料理の品々は、さすがにミシュランでも星を取るほどの素晴らしさ。食材の選定にも本当に気を配られています。調理法や味付けは京料理の伝統を守りつつ、常に新たな試みをされているようです。このお店の素晴らしさは、ご主人のお客様へのもてなしの心だと思います。本当に気さくに、食材や料理についてだけでなく、京都の街のことや、一緒に働く若い職人さんへの思いなど、たくさんお話をお...
Kyoto Rokusei

4.0

59 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Okazakinishitennouchou 71

A Kyoto cuisine restaurant founded in 1899 located in the Okazaki Nishitenno-cho neighborhood of Sakyo Ward just west of Heian Jingu Shrine. The restaurant offers traditional kaiseki course cuisine and recreations of the meals of Heian court nobles. It’s the restaurant’s “bucket” bento lunches made by the shop’s second generation proprietor with seasonal ingredients and served in a plain wood bucket that are the real attraction.

手桶のご飯をいただきました。一つ一つに、丁寧な味付けがされ、帰りに新幹線で食べた弁当とは、雲泥の差でした。ご飯も筍ご飯で、魚の西京焼き、出汁巻き、どれも美味しく頂きました。
Kintame Kyoto Nishijin Main Restaurant

4.5

22 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Kamigyo-ku Sembamon dori Itsutsuji Uruboru Town 576

This is an old Kyoto-style tsukemono (pickled vegetables) shop established in 1879 and located a three minute-walk along Senbon-dori Street from Senbon Imadegawa bus stop. The shop’s exterior with its large noren curtains has classic Kyoto charm. Aside from being able to buy seasonal Kyoto tsukemono, at lunch (only) the shop offers tatami “chazuke seats” inside for eating chazuke (rice with tea poured on). From the partition in the tatami room one can glimpse the washbasin and look out over the typical Kyoto machiya inner garden while dining—the height in sophistication. The popular Otsukemono Course contains a variety of foodstuffs including an assortment of seasonal tsukemono, sliced dried daikon radish, and light-brown miso zoni (soup containing rice cakes and vegetables).

北野天満宮にほど近い漬物の老舗です。漬物を買えるお店は数多くありますが、京町屋の坪庭を眺めながら本格的な漬物御膳を頂けるお店は中々ありません。人気のお店と聞き、予約してから伺いました。旬の漬物は勿論、旅行者の私達にとって「白味噌仕立てのお雑煮」も珍しく、大変美味しく頂きました。ショップコーナーでは、様々な漬物を購入可能、大量に購入して地方発送しているお客さんもいました。「近為御膳」1.980...
Sohonke Main Branch Yudofu Okutan Nanzenji Temple

4.0

71 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Nanzenjifukuchichou 86-30

The shop known as the oldest existing yudofu (boiled tofu) store in existence is a ten minute walk from Keage Subway Station, and has been introduced on television and in newspapers. Visitors can relax leisurely on the traditional Japanese seats on the floor and look out on the Japanese garden showing a different beauty with every season. The only tofu dish is yudofu. The homemade tofu using domestic soybean is mellow, rich with a deep taste of soy. Black sesame flavored tofu, peppered skewers of vegetable, and dishes of fried pumpkin and yuba (dried bean curds) are also available.

I wanted to have a really good yudofu so I decided to try this traditional restaurant. It was a weekday and I didnt need to queue. I even had a table by the window. Negative point was the dishes. It...
Ganko Kyoto Eki-biru

4.0

109 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Shimogyou-ku Karasumashiokouji Kyoto Station Building 2F Kyoto Theater

This kaiseki restaurant is in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto city. They offer dishes like healthy pork shabu shabu with broth made from dattan soba tea and fine kaiseki cuisine with fresh fish. They have private rooms and banquet halls for rent for parties large and small. Kaiseki cuisine is available at lunch time, too.

A very nice restaurant near Kyoto station. We didn’t do a set menu, instead we used the tablet (available in different languages) to order individual sushi and tempura dishes. The restaurant is...
Tempura Yoshikawa

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku, Fujikoji-dori Okeke Shimoru Matsushita cho 135

Enjoy superb tempura in this elegant and serene restaurant in downtown Kyoto. The tasteful building is a former wealthy merchant’s house built in the sukiya style. Diners can enjoy a relaxing time in the restaurant’s tatami seating, which faces a beautiful Japanese garden said to have been created by the nobleman Kobori Masakazu. The restaurant’s traditional Kyoto style kaiseki course cuisine focuses on tempura and is designed to make the most of the flavors of carefully selected, highly seasonal ingredients. Tempura Yoshikawa is the perfect place for a banquet or business meal. The tempura counter seating, where you can watch the tempura being prepared right in front of you, is also popular. Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station is the closest station to the restaurant.

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Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.